ESPN website allowed people to complain about ‘female commentators’

Mashable
A University of Pennsylvania student discovered that one of the topics ESPN fans could comment on was “Commentator – dislike female commentators.” After she tweeted a screenshot to a couple of female anchors for SportsCenter and some blogs picked it up, ESPN removed the option from its website. Mashable’s Sam Laird recounts ESPN’s explanation:

[Megan] Soisson said that later on Wednesday, an ESPN vice president wrote her a longer personal apology in which he explained that the comment field for complaints about female reporters was a a relic from some 10 years ago, when the the network first began assigning female play-by-play announcers to cover college football games and received criticism from some fans.